


This will cause the ball to pop up a little bit and you can then hit the opposite side flipper to occasionally save a ball. Sometimes after an outlane drain (or a re-entry drain on Black Hole) you can nudge up while raising a flipper on the side it's draining. Don't nudge more than twice in a short timeframe or you're likely to tilt. If it's going to graze the separator on the way in, nudge up or left to get the separator to strike the ball. (so if the ball is going to drain clean out by the wall in the left outlane, nudge the table to the right to cause the wall to hit the ball and make it pop out. You want to nudge in a direction that causes either the outside wall of the table or the outlane separator to strike the ball. You really just have to get a feel for them. This is trickier due to the way the outlanes work. You can also nudge to avoid losing a ball down the outlanes. If it's an especially close call, and you're afraid you're only going to graze the ball, hit the flipper and then the opposite flipper a split second later.

(So if you want it to hit the right flipper, nudge left.) Nudge when the ball is approx 6 inches above the flipper and then hit the flipper so that the flipper will hit the ball at the center of its arc. You nudge the stick in the direction opposite of the flipper you want the ball to hit. 90% of the time, it's used when the ball is close to draining down the center. I'm not the best player here, but I use nudging pretty often.
